Abstract
A new method for electrophoretic separation of the isoforms of malate dehydrogenase in microdissected tissue samples was applied to rat liver. The intra-acinar activity profiles of cytosolic (cMDH) and mitochondrial (mMDH) malate dehydrogenase were determined in male and female control animals and in animals fasted for 84 hr. Measurements were carried out on lyophilized liver tissue samples of 50-100 ng from the whole length of the sinusoid. The results showed that both in fed and fasted animals, mMDH activity was almost evenly distributed throughout the acinus in livers of both sexes. cMDH showed higher activity in the periportal area compared with the perivenous area by a factor of approximately 1.35 in all animals studied. Our results favor a slightly higher capacity of the malate-aspartate shuttle in the periportal area in both fed and fasted animals. Furthermore, the distribution pattern of mMDH suggests that this isoenzyme is not a marker for the zonation of the oxidative metabolism in the liver acinus.
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